Handle



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEQ GEORGE FITZSIMMONS, OF VEST CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,466, dated December 6, 1887.

Application filed August 15, 1887. Serial No 247,004. (1101101.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE FITZ SIMMONS, a citizen of the United States, residing at West Chester, in the county of Chester and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and improved mode of preventing a handle on the side ofa metallic, wooden, or other similar can from Striking against the side of the can when the can is set down; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

A handle is fastened to the side of a can by a strap. This strap is raised up over the axis of the handle to allow the handle to turn freely point where the axis 9 of the handle 0 passes under the strap 1), and within the raised portion of said strap b, a piece of wire, (Z, or other similar article, of sufficient size to prevent the handle 0 from dropping so far as to strike the can a when the handle 0 is permitted to drop by turning on its axis 9 when the can is set down, as described.

I am aware that prior to my invent-ion handles have been fastened to the sides of cans by a strap in such a manner as to allow the handle to turn freely on its axis. I therefore do not claim such a combination, broadly; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The wire (1, or other similar article, which passes between the can a and the strap 11 at the axis of the handle 0, immediately below the axis of the handle a, for the purpose of 5 preventing the handle 0 from striking against the can a when the can a is set down.

GEORGE rirz'snmnons.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS O. HOOTON, Trros I. WORRALL. 

